Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844-June 8, 1889)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844-June 8, 1889) was an English poet and artist. He was professor of classics at the University College in Dublin. The death of five nuns in a shipwreck in 1875 inspired him to composed The Wreck of the Deutschland, in which he stated in No. 28:

<Thou mastering me

God! giver of breath and bread;

World's strand, sway of the sea;

Lord of the living and dead;

Thou hast bound bones and veins in me,

fastened me flesh,

And after it almost unmade,

what with dread,

Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?

Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.> 1844GH001

In No. 31, God's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote:

<The world is charged with the grandeur of God.> 1844GH002

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American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement.

Endnotes:

1844GH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Gerard Manley Hopkins, No. 28, The Wreck of the Deutschland, st. I. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 655.

1844GH002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Gerard Manley Hopkins, No. 31, God's Grandeur, l. I. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 655.


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